CVE-2023-53044 Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.167.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELSYMS-10725405
  • published12 Jul 2025
  • disclosed9 Jul 2025

Introduced: 9 Jul 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-syms to version 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms package and not the kernel-syms package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm stats: check for and propagate alloc_percpu failure

Check alloc_precpu()'s return value and return an error from dm_stats_init() if it fails. Update alloc_dev() to fail if dm_stats_init() does.

Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference will occur in dm_stats_cleanup() even if dm-stats isn't being actively used.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1